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26 de nov. de 2019 · Born in 1768, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck succeeded as 4th Duke of Portland in 1809, on the death of his father, sometime Prime Minister and Whig leader. While Marquis of Titchfield he sat in the House of Commons and later as Duke in the Lords, he had limited engagement with politics, which he left to his father, brother-in-law (George Canning) and son.
Lord George Bentinck, as he was commonly known, claimed to have ‘sat in eight Parliaments without having taken part in any great debate’ when he assumed the leadership of the Protectionists in the Commons in 1846.1 The third of the four sons of the 4th duke of Portland and his wife, coheiress with her sisters the countess of Moray and the ...
On the death of his mother in 1785 he inherited the Cavendish estates in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, estimated to be worth £12,000 p.a. 6. The 2nd Duke of Portland had no electoral influence; the 3rd Duke showed a turn for electioneering and made a success of it. In 1765 he captured Wigan; and in 1768, in the great fight with Sir James ...
Bentinck was born in the Eastern Netherlands, as the fifth child in an old noble family, and in 1664 was chosen to be a page to Prince William III of Orange. He fast became a close confidant of the prince, and the two forged a friendship which was to last for the rest of their lives. Bentinck's early reputation was forged as a diplomat.
The 5th Duke never married and was succeeded by his cousin, William Cavendish-Bentinck, a grandson of the 3rd Duke, as 6th Duke of Portland. Archive Collections The 5th Duke's papers (Pw K) are part of the Portland (Welbeck) Collection held in Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham and include extensive estate correspondence
The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Lord Titchfield, later 4th Duke of Portland, married in 1794 Henrietta Scott, heiress of the Balcomie (Fife) estate, whose trustees also acquired for her the Cessnock, Dean and Kilmanock estates in Ayrshire.
Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, CMG (18 June 1897 – 30 July 1990), known as Victor Cavendish-Bentinck until 1977 and Lord Victor Cavendish-Bentinck from 1977 to 1980, and informally as Bill Bentinck, was a British diplomat, businessman, and peer. He served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee ...
